Yeah, as if the guy doesn't feel bad enough about it already. Punishment is fine to teach someone manners/respect, but prison won't teach common sense and won't right past mistakes. It's crazy that we still call them "correctional facilities". Oh well, way to just make some family's lives harder and create more of a burden on tax payers... :?

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Yeah, as if the guy doesn't feel bad enough about it already. Punishment is fine to teach someone manners/respect, but prison won't teach common sense and won't right past mistakes. It's crazy that we still call them "correctional facilities". Oh well, way to just make some family's lives harder and create more of a burden on tax payers... :?

So you're saying that it's okay the guy killed three people doing something blatantly illegal (not to mention stupid) just as long as he feels bad about it?

I'm saying that two wrongs don't equal a right in this case. The guys did something stupid and I'm sure they've learned from their mistake. They don't need prison to make them change their ways. If they're dumb enough to not have realized it was something they should never do again, prison isn't going to teach them any better. So prison for them serves no positive purpose.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

I'm saying that two wrongs don't equal a right in this case. The guys did something stupid and I'm sure they've learned from their mistake. They don't need prison to make them change their ways. If they're dumb enough to not have realized it was something they should never do again, prison isn't going to teach them any better. So prison for them serves no positive purpose.

I agree with you 100% Scott. It does no one any good to punish. As you mentioned, that's why they are called "correctional facilities". 10 years is not gonna do anyone any good, that's just keeping dangerous people from hurting the rest of society, but if you're gonna go with any long term jail sentences you may as well just do the rope and tree thing, it's cheap and quick. No sense wasting our money paying for 10+ wasted years of someone's life. Punishment only creates resentment and anger, he'll likely be bitter when he gets out. Who knows what trouble that will cause him and others.

So perhaps being realistic would be best. It sounds like these people all knew eachother, so even more so than if it were strangers I'm sure the guy has learned his lesson. The weight alone of playing a role in those two girls deaths is most likely enough for him to have figured it out. Surely there's a more appropriate and constructive way to deal with the unfortunate situation.

Since you asked, yes. Let him go because it seems time doesn't wait around for anyone (innocents or perps) and I don't foresee the two guys doing this again. It won't fix what's been broken. Isn't the idea of punishment to convince someone to not intentionally do something again? If the person needs no convincing, then no punishment is needed. There's a big difference between constructive punishment and vengeance. I know I'm weird because I don't get any pleasure out of getting revenge. I've been told I sould run for Jesus. So I guess if I'm campaigning, vote for me! Maybe I'll get the nomination... or is that "denomination"?

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Let him go?? You guys are nuts. True prison might not rehabilitate him, but letting him go because he supposedly is "sorry" for killing someone is not a true punishment.

The idea of "Punishment" isn't ONLY to persuade someone to not intentionally do something THIS STUPID again, if that was true then you would have to let killers/murders go free because they said they were "sorry" & theoretically wouldn't do it again because the said they were sorry.

Like it or not some part of a punishment for KILLING PEOPLE......DEAD should include some amount of vengeance for the family of the people that were killed. Letting the asshole go free would be a kick in the balls to the surviving family, basicly telling them to "shut up & get over" their loss.

If you started letting all people go free that said they were "sorry" for hurting/killing someone, how many do you think would really feel sorry for what they had done?? After a while not many, it would become a joke how easy it was to get off scott free while the greving family is stuck with the pain of their loss.

I totally agree with this^^.
Maybe instead of a "correctional facility", they should consider it an "*** raping facility"...because that would be justice for the boy and his uncle.

I know what that kind of loss is like. My older brother was killed by a 21 year old kid who was driving wrecklessly. He never even said he was sorry...instead, he was all smiles and giggles in the courtroom and he kept giving our family those dirty, smirkish looks.

He did'nt do any time behind bars whatsoever, and he even skipped out of his community service without repercussion.